Why Cast A Black Actress In Your Movie When You Can Get Mena Suvari In Cornrows? [Colorblind]

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 Why Cast A Black Actress In Your Movie When You Can Get Mena Suvari In Cornrows? [Colorblind]
Today's Los Angeles Times has a story about Mena Suvari, who is starring in a new film, Stuck, by Stuart Gordon. She plays Brandi, a young woman who hits a homeless man with her car late one night,... [link]

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Mena Suvari in Cornrows Apparently Just As Marketable As Actual Black Actresses
Published 5/29/2008 at Vulture
... Jezebel smartly points out the ridiculousness of Mena Suvari being cast in Stuck, an independent film coming out tomorrow. In the film, Suvari plays Brandi, a young woman who hits a homeless man (Stephen Rea) with her car late one night and, panicking, drives home and parks in the garage with the clinging-to-life victim still embedded in her windshield. The movie is based on the true story of Chante Mallard, a black woman from Fort Worth, Texas who's currently serving 50 years in prison. In playing the movie version of Chante, Suvari — in order to ...

BLACK = MENA SUVARI IN CORNROWS
Published 6/1/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (DCMovieGirl) at D.C.GIRL@THEMOVIES
Nope, it's not a review. I'm just directing you to this WTF?! post. DCMovieGirl

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